Editors' Note

CR: The New Centennial Review is devoted to comparative studies of the Americas. The journal's primary emphasis is on the opening up of the possibilities for a future Americas which does not amount to a mere reiteration of its past. We seek interventions, provocations, and, indeed, insurgencies which release futures for the Americas. In general, CR welcomes work that is inflected, informed, and driven by theoretical and philosophical concerns at the limits of the potentialities for the Americas.

Such work may be explicitly concerned with the Americas, or it may be broader, global and/or genealogical scholarship with implications for the Americas. CR recognizes that the language of the Americas is translation, and that therefore questions of translation, dialogue, and border crossings (linguistic, cultural, national, and the like) are necessary for rethinking the foundations and limits of the Americas.

For forty-five years, CR has been a journal committed to interdisciplinarity, and we continue to encourage work which goes beyond a simple performance of the strategies of various disciplines and interdisciplines, and which therefore interrogates them.

This issue of CR presents a critical project of historical translation aimed at locating "Origins of 'Postmodern' Cuba." The issue was initiated, conceptualized, and supervised by Associate Editor Salah D. Hassan.

We want to thank Cintio Vitier and Anton Arrufat for their encouragement and support of this project. Both Vitier and Arrufat were intimately related to Orígenes and Ciclón; their interest in the translation and publication of these materials in English made possible this special issue.

Funding for translations for this issue was provided by Scott Whiteford and Manuel Chavez on behalf of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University, and by Dennis Tedlock, the James McNulty Professor of English and Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. This issue would not have been possible without their support. CR also wishes to thank the following board members for special assistance toward this issue: Margarita Vargas, José Buscaglia, and Roberto Tejada. Quincy Norwood assisted in compiling the Cuban materials.

We currently are soliciting work for special issues or special sections on the following topics, among others:

• At the Heart: Of Jean-Luc Nancy
• PanAmericanisms
• Globalicities: Possibilities of the Globe
• Persistence of Coloniality
• Sounding the Americas: Musics, Noises, Silences
• Arab/American: Impossible Solidarities?
• Brown/Gratz/Grutter: The Fiftieth Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, and Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan
• 1968: Chicago, Mexico City, Paris, Prague
• The Francophone Exponent: Squaring France, North Africa, the Caribbean, and Quebec